Author: Daniel Berkman Running conditions were close to ideal for this year's NESCAC cross country championship at Wesleyan University. The day was overcast and the course was dry despite a couple of stream crossings in the middle of the race. Considering all the rain and cold weather the past few weeks, ...
Author: By Ian Thomas Fleishman The Paul Lewis concert of Beethoven sonatas on Friday night at the Concert Hall at the Center for the Arts was likely the single most enjoyable performance that I have attended yet this year. Certainly, there have been no small number of piano recitals in this year's ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca With the new yet bittersweet slogan of The Times-Picayune, "We publish come hell and high water," projected behind him, Editor-in-Chief Jim Amoss explained to a Middlebury audience last Thursday exactly how his newspaper survived the odds and the elements, publishing all the ...
Author: Geoffrey Homer Hoping to continue its season long domination in the pool, the Middlebury men's water polo team competed last weekend in the North Atlantic Division Championships. Duplicating their season-long success, the Panthers conquered every team they faced in the pool, cumulating with ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER At the Saturday night Halloween party in Johnson, there was a large tangled mass of glow rings hanging from strings above the pit where costumed drunks danced to the beat of a costumed jam band. All night, partygoers on the mezzanine had been reaching out over the railing and ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel The Strategic Planning Committee held a town meeting in the McCullough Social Space last Thursday in an attempt to present its completed work and gather feedback from the College community.Addressing a sparse crowd of around 15 or 20 people - about one-third the number who had ...
Author: Eri Nosaka This weekend the men's team faced a doubleheader against Colby College and Coast Guard on its way to winning a New England Championship. On Saturday, the Panthers played against the Colby Mules and crushed them by a score of 27-7. Although Middlebury's ability to completely overwhelm ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I was pretty bummed when I read your interview with the new liquor inspector. If I really wanted to know his job history I would have called and asked for a resume. I would liken those sort of questions to getting an interview with Bush and asking him ...
Author: James Kerrigan After a strong 2004 season which ended with a second place finish, the 2005 women's soccer team could not advance past the conference quarterfinals against Bowdoin. Middlebury built momentum coming into the playoffs with a strong performance against Plattsburg, followed by a win ...
Author: Dave Barker I didn't attend Brainerd Commons' pool party screening of Jaws, but I trembled nonetheless at Dana Auditorium while enjoying Tim Burton's interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sure, Great Whites are scarier than grooving Oompa Loompas, but the real fright centered ...
Author: Sarah Poling Luehrman The Panthers' regular season ended Tuesday with a 3-0 win over in-state rival St. Michael's. Last weekend's NESCAC Quad at Williams gave the Panthers a taste of the competition they will face next weekend when they travel to Colby for the NESCAC Championship tournament. ...
Author: Astri von Arbin-Ahlander What strikes me as I enter Perry Blackshear's Sunderland basement office are the walls - cream-colored cinderblock is spotted with old film posters, pictures of friends, flyers from campus screenings of his own films and, finally, an old photograph of Perry himself. ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Last Tuesday, instead of the daily dose of rain that had been dousing the Northeast Region for the past two weeks, the skies opened up and surprised Vermonters with an unseasonably early snowstorm. Though Middlebury residents only saw flurries, which melted before they even ...
Author: Stephen Donadio The editorial in last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus in support of the termination of the American Literature Department and major seems to me remarkably uninformed. In offering its recommendation, much of the essay merely recycles uncritically the kinds of unsubstantiated ...
Author: ANNABELLE CAZES PARIS-Though the Monoprix - France's most unpleasant and aggravating excuse for an American grocery store - might have everything from Princesse Tam-Tam lingerie to Nutella, the aisles are too narrow, there are always too many people and worst of all, the checkout lines are never-ending. ...
Author: Jonathan Brand For three quarters on Saturday, the Panthers had all of Alumni Stadium believing the football team could pull off what would have unquestionably been the biggest win of the Bob Ritter Era. The fourth quarter, however, grounded everyone in reality. The Trinity Bantams showed the ...
Author: Jennifer Shapland Erica Goodman '06 was named Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) volunteer of the year for her work to maintain one of the area's prized recreational assets. The Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) is a great link between the town, the College and the countryside and is open to the ...
Author: Tom McCann If the old adage that the foundation of every great team is a great defense is true, the Middlebury men's soccer team of 2005 can consider itself one of the best. Of course, all truly great teams have to win silverware, and at the semi-final stage of the NESCAC tournament, nothing ...
Author: [no author name found] Panthers go back to the future Before the Middlebury men's hockey team begins defense of its back-to-back national titles, it will have to take on a group of familiar faces. The Panthers will be battling an alumni team in an exhibition game this weekend, with the puck ...
Author: By Kathryn Flagg and Ben Salkowe In a score for Brainerd Commons, a steady crowd of over 200 turned out last Friday night for a late October pool party, complete with more than $2,200 worth of inflatable tubes and rafts and a two-story high projection screen showing "Jaws." Telling students ...